979 search results for “as an and east mediterranean archaeology” in the Staff website
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Archaeologist Martin Berger works on online FIFA exposition about origins of football
Martin Berger was asked by the FIFA Museum in Zürich to help develop an exposition on the origins of football. In line with his expertise, he worked on the part of the online exposition that was about the Mesoamerican ballgame.
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An-Sofie VanhoucheFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.s.vanhouche@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Graduation Ceremony Bachelor Archaeology
Ceremony
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Graduation Ceremony MA Archaeology
Ceremony
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Graduation Ceremony Bachelor Archaeology
Ceremony
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Lecture by Al-Babtain Visiting Fellow Salwa El-Awa
Dr. Salwa El-Awa delivers a talk on Wednesday, November 2nd, on "Ambiguity in the Qur'an".
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Shaping the future with stories from the past
An archaeologist as a modern-day shaman. An unexpected comparison Professor by Special Appointment of Public Archaeology Luc Amkreutz will make in his inaugural lecture.
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Master Graduation Ceremony Archaeology
Graduation Ceremony
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Graduation Ceremony BA Archaeology
Graduation Ceremony
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Master Graduation Ceremony Archaeology
Graduation Ceremony
- MA Archaeology Graduation Ceremony
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Faculty Staff Meeting Archaeology
Stafvergadering
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
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Aafje de Roest: ‘As an expert in Dutch Studies you have the right skills to research hip hop’
Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Dutch hip hop music shapes the cultural identity of young people in the Netherlands.
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End of Year Event Archaeology
End of Year Event
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Research Data Management for Archaeology
Training
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Coring among sheep: investigating a pasture's past
It is late June, and on a windy meadow north of Leiden known as the Vrouw Vennepolder a group of archaeology students just hit the last ice age. Considering this involves manually pushing a ground core to a depth of 10 meters, this is no small feat. Even so, the taking of ground samples in this, at…
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Archaeological Congress Oss
Conference
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Paul KloegUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
p.kloeg@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1094
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Wim van den DoelCollege van Bestuur
h.w.van.den.doel@bb.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2922
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Vanessa NewbyFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
v.f.newby@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9911
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Babak RezaeedaryakenariFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
s.rezaeedaryakenari@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512
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Yoonai HanFaculty of Humanities
y.han@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2551
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Urban Systems in the Roman Near East
PhD defence
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A New industry in an Ancient Land: Archaeology and Tourism at the crossroads
Conference, Public event
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Bachelor's Graduation Ceremony Archaeology
Graduation Ceremony
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Graduation Ceremony (R)MA Archaeology
Graduation Ceremony
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Egyptian archaeologists deepen their expertise on human osteoarchaeology in Leiden
The Leiden Faculty of Archaeology is an institution of international renown. Frequently, researchers from other places of learning visit the faculty to broaden and deepen their own expertise. Currently, the Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology is hosting two scholars from Egypt, Samar Abudahab and…
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Aitor Burguet-Coca studied fire-use from Palaeolithic to Bronze Age: ‘This gives us an image on different uses of fire across prehistory’
For the following years, Dr Aitor Burguet-Coca will be a returning face at the Faculty of Archaeology. He will join Dr Amanda Henry’s team with his expertise on prehistoric fire use and the methodologies that studying ancient hearths requires.
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Gerrit DusseldorpFaculteit Archeologie
g.l.dusseldorp@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2428
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Contested heritage in The Hague: what to do with the remains of the Atlantik Wall?
During World War II, the Nazi’s ordered a coastal defensive line to be built from the south of France to Norway. This Atlantik Wall aimed to defend their territories in continental Europe from an Allied naval invasion. The defensive line went right through the Dutch city of The Hague. The material remains…
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Archaeologist Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart wins the IALA dissertation award for his doctoral thesis
‘I was very happy and honoured that my thesis was recognised as a valuable contribution to the topic of landscape archaeology.’
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Court as a theatre: ‘There are great similarities between drama as an art form and the legal world’
The Lucia de Berk case or the suicide of Slobodan Praljak at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: certain trials keep popping up in media. In her dissertation, Tessa de Zeeuw examines the cultural appeal of such cases and analyses artistic responses. ‘Artworks sometimes have…
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Leiden archaeologists create open educational resources on agent-based modeling
The past two years, Laura van der Knaap and Professor Karsten Lambers worked on creating open teaching materials on agent-based modeling, funded by Erasmus+ and in collaboration with Danish, Irish and Dutch partners. Programming is an important skill involved in this, which is often seen as intimidating…
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Archaeologists of the future dig for traces of the past
Forty archaeology students are holding a shovel somewhat awkwardly in the fields at Oss. This is their first day of fieldwork and they are going to use muscles they didn’t even know they had.
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Cultural continuities and discontinuities: the Neolithic ornament assemblages from Franchthi (Greece)
Lecture
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Research into grave goods sheds new light on traditional roles
New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 words ago were less traditional than was thought. The research was conducted by a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Archol, the National Museum…
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Archaeologist Alex Geurds becomes member of Society of Antiquaries: ‘It is an honor bestowed for life’
Dr Alex Geurds was elected as a Fellow for the Society of Antiquaries, a prestigious and old educational charity based in London. Established in 1707, the society aims at the encouragement and advancement of the study and knowledge of the antiquities.
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Workshop AI in Education | Archaeology
Lecture
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Book launch “Style en Society in the Prehistory of West Asia – Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse”
Conference, Book launch
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Leiden research on Neanderthals featured in the Wall Street Journal article
In the article “Neanderthals and Us: We’re More Alike Than Once Thought”, we are reminded that many negative traits, from unintelligent to unsophisticated, have long been attributed to Neanderthals in popular culture. However, recent studies bring to light an ever-increasing amount of evidence contradicting…
- Open Science in Archaeology: an Unconference
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The Market of Health, Vigor and Beauty in the Dutch East indies: The Role of Irregular Physicians and Pharmacies
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Leiden Archaeology Network and Career Event (LANCE)
Career Event
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The WPS Agenda and the Middle East: Progress or Procrastination?
Debate
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Leiden Archaeology Network and Career Event (LANCE)
Career Event
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
a.f.schrikker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2769
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Towards an Archaeology of Malaria
International Symposium on Malaria Studies
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Jebel Aruda: an Uruk Period Temple and Settlement in Syria
Book Presentation
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…